Downstream

from the past still
internationally known and
honoured today. Born in 1886
in Sydney, New South Wales,
her father was Australian and
her mother ‘one of Paris’s
greatest pianists’. As a child
she had ‘a very distressing’
leg condition, probably
rickets, and wore leg braces
until she was seven. Once the
braces were off, and
following medical advice, she
started swimming. By the age